Comic review: BUMF VOL. 1- Reality bomb

Writer and artist: Joe Sacco
Publisher: Random House
Released: November 2nd 2014


With bags on their heads the compromised servants of the new world order deliberately ignore reality, caring only about their own career opportunities whilst the world around them burns.

Statist mothers betray their pacifist sons. A woman uses paper money to buy milk. She is kidnapped by the state, not because she has done anything wrong, but because the state is worried that she is not posting enough information about herself on facebook and twitter and that her paper money transactions cannot be logged and traced.

A portal is opened to a parallel dimension. A dimension where there is no law, no morality, no repercussions for your actions and where torture is permitted. The milk purchasing woman is tortured until eventually she learns to love her torturer, thanking him for abusing her.

Richard Nixon is reincarnated as Barack Obama. Once again he is President of the US, but in 2014 he is allowed to get away with all of his actions. He spends his time in bed, eating potato chips and piloting a drone where he can kill whomever he wants, whenever he wants. He doesn’t have to justify his actions. He has the time of his life, and can’t quite believe that he’s allowed to get away with it.

Enemies of the state are chopped up and fed to a grateful public. Citizens are referred to as ‘Citizen-Suspects.’ Nixon uses executive orders to justify his absurdity. Lawyers are consulted, then fired if they do not agree with him.

Meanwhile, cartoonist Joe Sacco is invited into the communal mainstream media Jacuzzi. He is lavished with praise, just as long as he wears the same hood as everybody else and reports what he is told to report. Joe is happy to do this. He wears his hood, pick up awards, and write an ostensibly funny, throwaway, silly little comic about naked hood wearing servants of evil, a daft talking chicken character and Richard Nixon.

So, is this comic book any good?

No, it’s a billion times better than ‘good.’

What this comic book does is expose the utter lunacy that we have come to accept as normalcy in the world today.

BUMF VOL. 1 is an absurdist, comedic masterpiece of sociopolitical satire that shoves our faces into our own filth. It accuses us of complicity in everything that is happening in the world TODAY. It accuses us of wilful ignorance, of going along with evil for selfish, careerist reasons.

Writer Joe Sacco accuses himself, and he finds himself as guilty as everybody else.

This book answers the question, ‘Who is responsible?’ The uncomfortable answer being, YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE.

You put up with insanity, so insanity is what you get. You get a world run by Satan, because that is what you deserve to get. You support Satan through your actions, not your words. Your words are meaningless. It’s your actions that count. You are naked. You wear a bag over your head. You chose to wear the bag. It shields you from reality, and you have made a conscious decision to wear that bag. You are responsible. The world is burning because of you. You are to blame. It is your fault.

Rating: 10/10 (must buy book)